So in the Fallout universe, why every single thing is from the 50s?

[Delta51]

The year bombs fell was on 2077, so what happened to the latest technology known today?

[mfree]

The changes in timelines happened right after WWII. Things critical to how today developed, didn't happen.

[Zalzany]

One its based on the 60s dream tech. Its pretty obvious, The dream world were we would have cars running on uranium, and the miltary has jet packs. You have a robot buttler, and the subway uses robot stewards. That is the whole point, the 90s we were anti everything this daydream fantasy was about, we started to break away from family values, question everything, and cold war ended. there is no 90s tech because this is a world where the 60s era never died, they some how perfected vacume tubes, and worked out nuclear powerd robots, and cars affordable to the middle class.

That is what this whole game is built around, I mean there is no radaway in real life if you take a large dose of radiaiton your screwed, you never be 100% again, but in this world they made drugs and what not that could clense radiation. Kids played with radiactive board games while their robot nannies fusion core hummed in the background as it folded their laundry.

This was all built around cold war era never ending and the dream tech they had invisioned being created, such as lazer guns, mini nukes, robots, and real legit fear of nuclear war.

Ford even had a model car, and concept in 1958 for a nuclear powered car, that thank gond never got built for real. Its all 1940-60 concept ideas of the future that never happened in that cold war era. Like they look a lot like some of the concept cars from late 40s when they were obesesed with two ideas making it more like an airplane, and some how putting a reactor in it.

[Reverend Belial]

None of it is from the nineties, it's all from the fifties and sixties. In the Fallout Universe the timeline diverged after WWII, rather than advancing in the path it did historically society in Fallout experienced a technology boom and retained the 50's culture and mindset. Nothing in the game is from the modern era because in Fallout the modern era never happened.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

The split between Fallout technology and Real World technology has to do with the focus on miniturizing atomic power, as opposed to developing and shrinking the transistor. In Fallout lore, this is speared on by the sudden depletion of hydrocarbons.

The result is you have complex energy-hungry machines like Robotics and Power Armor, yet derpy vacuum tube terminals on the computer front.

The split can be best summarized as Industry versus Information. Our world is one of Information, the Fallout world is one of Industry. This is thematically appropriate, as the setting in Fallout pre-war is one of McCarthy era style blacklisting and paranoia.

[Reverend Belial]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

The split between Fallout technology and Real World technology has to do with the focus on miniturizing atomic power, as opposed to developing and shrinking the transistor. In Fallout lore, this is speared on by the sudden depletion of hydrocarbons.

The result is you have complex energy-hungry machines like Robotics and Power Armor, yet derpy vacuum tube terminals on the computer front.

The split can be best summarized as Industry versus Information. Our world is one of Information, the Fallout world is one of Industry. This is thematically appropriate, as the setting in Fallout pre-war is one of McCarthy era style blacklisting and paranoia.

It also has to do with the Roswell Incident being an actual crashed alien scout ship rather than a weather balloon in Fallout so the U.S. reverse engineered stuff from the Zetans rather than making their own.

[Rodso]

Originally posted by Reverend Belial:

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

The split between Fallout technology and Real World technology has to do with the focus on miniturizing atomic power, as opposed to developing and shrinking the transistor. In Fallout lore, this is speared on by the sudden depletion of hydrocarbons.

The result is you have complex energy-hungry machines like Robotics and Power Armor, yet derpy vacuum tube terminals on the computer front.

The split can be best summarized as Industry versus Information. Our world is one of Information, the Fallout world is one of Industry. This is thematically appropriate, as the setting in Fallout pre-war is one of McCarthy era style blacklisting and paranoia.

It also has to do with the Roswell Incident being an actual crashed alien scout ship rather than a weather balloon in Fallout so the U.S. reverse engineered stuff from the Zetans rather than making their own.

the only stuff that may possibly be reversed engineered from alien tech is some enclave stuff

[Ruin]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

The split between Fallout technology and Real World technology has to do with the focus on miniturizing atomic power, as opposed to developing and shrinking the transistor. In Fallout lore, this is speared on by the sudden depletion of hydrocarbons.

The result is you have complex energy-hungry machines like Robotics and Power Armor, yet derpy vacuum tube terminals on the computer front.

The split can be best summarized as Industry versus Information. Our world is one of Information, the Fallout world is one of Industry. This is thematically appropriate, as the setting in Fallout pre-war is one of McCarthy era style blacklisting and paranoia.

TL:DR version... The microchip was never invented in the Fallout timeline, hence the advanced, yet retro-looking tech...

[Claraysel]

no matter how old the fallout tech looks it is more advanced than our best nowadays

[Von Faustien]

Wow how young are you OP i mean 90s tech wasn't anywhere near as antiquated as fallouts...i mean shot your off the decade they based the world on by 40 years.

[⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝ UFO]

Originally posted by Deathrune525:

The year bombs fell was on 2077, so what happened to the latest technology known today?

you mean 40's to 60's. But anyways back then people didn't know about the hidden projects so who knows who advanced it was when it never hit the public. Remember fords tbird electic car? Also dogde had a jet car. There was also plans for nuclear power cars but never came to light no wonder why.